Hi I'm Harry
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:28 am
At this point in time I imagine all of the folks here already know me from the BYMC forum as w3.
I was born in the early 60s and spent my whole life in construction starting in Residential/Commercial at an early age covering nearly every trade by the time I was 25 at which point I was doing remodel work for a large Maintenance/Management company. About this time I got into heavy construction doing underground utilities, this would be pipes in the ground that cities are built upon. For close to two decades I did mainly wet lines (water, sewer and storm). I was a pipe fitter/layer but also a foreman most of the time along with equipment operator whenever needed.
In 2009 the housing crunch practically ended this entire industry. I wasnt particularly saddened about it though because driving a 1,000 miles a week never was much fun and there is no long term future in the field. It is the sort of thing where you are used as long as your back is strong then left to your own devices. I have always wanted build a business where I could make things people want or need and market these products. In the foundry I found the perfect opportunity to do just this.
I have always had strong interests in computers, art and math and the last couple of years have found a whole new field to occupy my later years int he form of metal casting. Having built myself a fairly complete foundry over the last two years along with a cnc wood router for pattern making my dreams of owning/operating my own profitable foundry are slowly becoming a reality.
Part of the reason for this forum is to share this with others because as i see it this is something that not only could many of us do this is something that many of us need to do. Both for ourselves and the future of our respective countries, there is a great sense of satisfaction in melting a wheel that has made in china on it only to make it into something that was made right here.
So anyhow I will continue to share my foundry experience here in these forums and hopefully some others will come along and share theirs too so that we can learn from each other as we continue to develop our skills and businesses. I also hope that this domain, FoundDreaming.com will be a helpful tool to create a distribution network for the fruits of our craft. I have a ton of ideas on how to go about this and time will tell on seeing that come to be.
So now you know my story and how I ended up here on FoundDreaming, I plan to keep dreaming and creativity take me where it will.
I was born in the early 60s and spent my whole life in construction starting in Residential/Commercial at an early age covering nearly every trade by the time I was 25 at which point I was doing remodel work for a large Maintenance/Management company. About this time I got into heavy construction doing underground utilities, this would be pipes in the ground that cities are built upon. For close to two decades I did mainly wet lines (water, sewer and storm). I was a pipe fitter/layer but also a foreman most of the time along with equipment operator whenever needed.
In 2009 the housing crunch practically ended this entire industry. I wasnt particularly saddened about it though because driving a 1,000 miles a week never was much fun and there is no long term future in the field. It is the sort of thing where you are used as long as your back is strong then left to your own devices. I have always wanted build a business where I could make things people want or need and market these products. In the foundry I found the perfect opportunity to do just this.
I have always had strong interests in computers, art and math and the last couple of years have found a whole new field to occupy my later years int he form of metal casting. Having built myself a fairly complete foundry over the last two years along with a cnc wood router for pattern making my dreams of owning/operating my own profitable foundry are slowly becoming a reality.
Part of the reason for this forum is to share this with others because as i see it this is something that not only could many of us do this is something that many of us need to do. Both for ourselves and the future of our respective countries, there is a great sense of satisfaction in melting a wheel that has made in china on it only to make it into something that was made right here.
So anyhow I will continue to share my foundry experience here in these forums and hopefully some others will come along and share theirs too so that we can learn from each other as we continue to develop our skills and businesses. I also hope that this domain, FoundDreaming.com will be a helpful tool to create a distribution network for the fruits of our craft. I have a ton of ideas on how to go about this and time will tell on seeing that come to be.
So now you know my story and how I ended up here on FoundDreaming, I plan to keep dreaming and creativity take me where it will.
